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Many of us enjoy a city break, and the most seasoned travellers know that a successful trip is often down, in part, at least, to a destination being walkable. Now Skyscanner has revealed the best up-and-coming cities for a break which aren’t the obvious choices – think Berlin or Dubrovnik. Experts at the travel booking platform looked at flight data for destinations outside the United States which are walkable and easy to navigate. A total of 14 factors for each city were evaluated, including the distances between the main attractions, the number of walking trails, average elevation, air quality and…

In 2025, 28 percent of new heavy-duty vehicles sold in China were electric. In the European Union, the figure was 1.9 percent, according to data from the International Council on Clean Transport (ICCT). That is a ratio of almost one to 15, despite the technology now being available on both sides. Gaël Quéinnec This gap is no longer technological. It reveals a deeper problem: we have set trajectories without creating the economic and political conditions needed to achieve them. China has the planning and implementation capacity to bypass the patient process of building coalitions among stakeholders. Europe, by contrast, is…

The European Commission is redirecting internal resources to Moldova’s enlargement process, after Chișinău’s reform pace outstripped the department’s capacity to keep up with it, EU officials told Euronews. The Moldovan government has pushed through required reforms so quickly that the Commission is now playing catch-up, reallocating existing resources to keep tabs on progress. “Moldova’s impressive record of EU reforms is paying off. I had a good call with new Prime Minister Vasile Tofan during which we discussed the next steps on Moldova’s EU accession path,” Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos wrote on X on Tuesday. The Commission’s enlargement department, already stretched…

Brent crude topped $100 a barrel on Wednesday and held firm on Thursday morning after renewed attacks on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz. It has held above $70 since mid-February, almost seven months, and is up 65.7% since the end of 2025, when it closed the year at $60.85. But this is no longer simply an energy market story. More expensive crude raises the cost of diesel, petrol and jet fuel. Those increases then spread through transport networks, supply chains and eventually consumer prices. For Europe, the timing could hardly be worse. Eurozone inflation was already 3.3% in August,…

The company’s new CEO, John Ternus, who took over from Tim Cook on 1 September, introduced Apple’s latest products at the company’s Cupertino, California headquarters. After cycling through other updates to the iPhone, the Apple Watch and AirPods, Ternus told the audience inside the Steve Jobs Theater that “actually there is one more thing,” in a nod to the trademark phrase from Jobs that the company’s legendary late founder himself borrowed from the 1970s detective show “Columbo.” The foldable phone has the “largest display ever on an iPhone, yet fits into your pocket,” Ternus said. The phone opens to a…

The U.S. is on a public campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court. Now, it wants help from its NATO allies.  During a closed-door meeting back in July, U.S. envoy to NATO Matthew Whitaker asked allied countries for help in disassembling the international court that addresses genocide and crimes against humanity.  On the show, Sarah Wheaton and Kathryn Carlson discuss the European reaction and the motivations behind this American push. Next, Europe’s housing crisis is deepening. Sarah Wheaton spoke with the Commissioner tasked with tackling the problem, Dan Jørgensen. And criminal gangs in Europe are using AI to figure out where they can…

Published on 10/09/2026 – 6:00 GMT+2 August was the hottest month on record, tied with July 2023, according to data published on Thursday by the European climate observatory Copernicus. Last month, the global average air temperature reached 16.96°C, which is 1.65°C higher than the pre-industrial reference period of 1850–1900. August was the first month since November 2025 to exceed 1.5°C, the limit set by the Paris Agreement on climate change. The extra-polar oceans also broke a record for their average temperature last month, due to global warming, Copernicus points out. The average temperature reached 21.07°C, the highest ever recorded for…

Roter Teppich für Scheich Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan: Hinter den Kulissen des Staatsbesuchs aus den Emiraten tobt ein harter Wirtschaftskrimi. Hans von der Burchard zeigt auf, warum mögliche Emirates-Direktflüge die Lufthansa alarmieren und sogar ein Gerangel der Bundesländer entfachen. Währenddessen wächst der parteiinterne Druck auf Friedrich Merz. Rasmus Buchsteiner analysiert, warum dem Kanzlerkandidaten ausgerechnet im einflussreichen Parlamentskreis Mittelstand eisiger Wind entgegenweht und wie die Gerüchte um einen Kanzlertausch um Hendrik Wüst und Markus Söder einfach nicht verschwinden wollen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview fordert Henriette Held von der Grünen Jugend einen radikalen Kurswechsel ihrer Partei. Die Co-Vorsitzende warnt die Parteispitze um Franziska…

Published on 09/09/2026 – 12:33 GMT+2 Finland completed a 200-kilometre security fence along its border with Russia, strengthening NATO’s longest frontier with a country’s accused of intensified hybrid attacks on Europe. The project was launched after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine transformed Finland’s security environment and prompted the country to abandon decades of military non-alignment and join NATO in April 2023. Later that year, more than 1,300 migrants without visas arrived at Finland’s eastern border. Helsinki accused Moscow of “hybrid warfare” by orchestrating the movement of third-country nationals towards the frontier, a charge the Kremlin denied. Finland shut its land…

In 2024, the war in Gaza was a major issue that pushed voters away from Labour. Burnham has said that the party’s position under Starmer was wrong, and is taking a stronger stance against the Israeli government. Restrictions on buying goods made in Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were announced Tuesday. The battle lines  The by-election might become a battle of competing national visions. Green supporters argue that Burnham will be prime minister regardless of the outcome, and that having Polanski as an MP will add to pressure on the government in parliament from the left. Meanwhile, Labour…